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photo: RICHARD T. MEAGHER / staff photographer enlarge By LAURA ERNDE and CLYDE FORD / Staff Writers FALLING WATERS, W.Va. - Powerball fever caused traffic to back up Monday on U.S. 11 to Interstate 81 with out-of-state drivers stopping to buy lottery tickets at the Texaco Food Mart in Falling Waters. With the jackpot now estimated at a whopping $250 million, the "fever" has become an epidemic. --cont from front page -- No one hit the $183 million prize on Saturday.

The Interstate 70 Sunoco Food Market on Sharpsburg Pike looks like many conveniences stores with gasoline pumps out front and drinks and food for sale inside. [cont. from front page ] It's also a hot spot for Maryland lottery games, especially Keno. In the last fiscal year, The Sunoco Food Market was the biggest Keno retailer in the county with $376,000 in sales. Almost $63 million, or $108 per person, was spent on lotteries in the Tri-State area in the last fiscal year, lottery officials said.

CHARLES TOWN, W.VA. charlestown@herald-mail.com They didn't hit the $340 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday, but they were winners just the same. Nineteen people who work together in Charles Town told state Lottery Commission officials they had a winning $853,492 Powerball ticket that was purchased from the Somerset Shell gas station and convenience store in the Somerset Village shopping center along U.S. 340 north of Charles Town. There were 49 tickets on which players hit five of the winning numbers but missed the Powerball number during Wednesday's drawing, West Virginia Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla said.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - The jackpot for tonight's Powerball drawing has reached $145 million and could climb above $200 million by Saturday if no one picks the winning numbers, according to the West Virginia Lottery. [cont. from news page ] The jackpot came close to dropping back to $10 million last weekend when a lottery ticket sold at a Berkeley County gas station missed the jackpot by one number, state lottery spokeswoman Kari Safford said. A ticket sold at Marlow's Texaco station in Falling Waters, W.Va.

by Kevin G. Gilbert / staff photographer see the enlargement Powerball players line up for record jackpot MARLOWE, W.Va. - Powerball lottery sales were reaching a frenzy Tuesday as ticket-buyers lined up for a chance at the world record $175 million jackpot up for grabs tonight. --cont. from front page-- A line formed early Tuesday and continued throughout the day at the Texaco Food Mart in Marlowe, at the northernmost exit off Interstate 81 in West Virginia.

Video lottery haul totals $936 million Nearly $62.8 million was spent on traditional lottery games in the Tri-State area last fiscal year, but that paled in comparison with bets made at Charles Town Races, according to lottery officials. continued Gamblers played $936 million in credits at the racetrack for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2000, according to West Virginia Lottery officials. Of that, almost $857 million was given out in prizes, said Tacy Donovan with the lottery.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Someone, somewhere is holding a $10 million winning lottery ticket, but that person had not come forward by Friday afternoon, West Virginia Lottery spokeswoman Nancy Bulla said. The winning Powerball ticket was sold at Sheetz in Charles Town, at the intersection of Flowing Springs Road and East Washington Street, on June 26 at 5:37 p.m. The numbers were picked randomly by computer using the lottery's Quick Pick system, Bulla said. Bulla said it is not uncommon for winners to wait before coming forward.

Charles Town Races looks to add 1,500 video slot machines CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Charles Town Races wants to add 1,500 video machines to the 2,000 it has now. Jim Buchanan, the track's president and chief executive officer, said the new slots would be phased in - 1,000 this summer and 500 next year. A public hearing on the request is scheduled for Feb. 28 at 9 a.m. at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Shepherdstown, W.Va. At 11 a.m., the West Virginia Lottery Commission is scheduled to meet at Charles Town Races to consider the request and vote on it. The commission's meeting is open to the public.

Slot machines yielding rich take for local governments By ANDREW SCHOTZ andrews@herald-mail.com Millions of dollars pour from the bellies of slot machines at Charles Town Races into the coffers of local government. Jefferson County and its five municipalities received nearly $4.7 million in slot machine revenue from 1997 to 2001, according to the West Virginia Lottery. Jefferson County Commissioner James Ruland expects another $3 million to come in this fiscal year.